Respect Your Elders. Even if They’re Neanderthals

Respect Your Elders. Even if They’re Neanderthals

Every election year, political candidates of all stripes are called “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.” In a recent column, Washington Post pundit Kathleen Parker asks if it’s fair that many U.S. women see the Republican party in precisely those terms. Barbara King’s question: Is that fair to the Neanderthals?

King explains why Neanderthals weren’t at all the cartoonish, bent-kneed, club-wielding cave people of popular legend and gives her top 5 reasons why we all should give Neanderthals some respect.